Dispensing device



Sem., 14, 1943.

A. F. SYVERUD DISPENSING DEVICE Filed March 2o, 19-40V INVENTOR ANA/Af? FQ/oTL/m/ Srl/EQUO BY l 1M TORNEY the extent to which the member or disc is rotated. That is, the amount of material fed out of the device will have direct relation to the ext-ent of rotation of the member or disc I8. The feed will continue as long as the member or disc I8 is kept in rotation and will cease immediately upon cessation of the rotation of said member or disc.

More explicitly, the side wall of the lower member I2 of the container rigidly supports oppositely disposed, inwardly extending bearing members I9, I9 the inner ends 20, 20 of which terminate in spaced apart relation to each other. The

earing members I9, I9 are situated in a lower portion of the chamber ||J at a slight distance of the container II. Y The relatively roughened member or sponge rubber disc I8 is :lixedly supported upon a shaft 2| rotatably mounted, as at 22, 22, in the oppo-I sitely disposed bearing members |9, vlil, and said member or disc I8 is situated within the chamber l0 between and in spaced relation to the inner ends 20,' 20, respectively, of said bearing members |9,` I9, desirably about as disclosed in Fig. 1. As shown, the shaft 2| is angular in cross-section, and a crank 23upon's'aid shaft and at the outer side of the dispensing device isior the purpose of rotating the shaft thus to cause the relatively rou-ghened member'or sponge rubber disc to be rotated.

As very clearly disclosed, the memberv or disc |8 is reinforced or strengthened at its opposite side'surfaces, adjacent the bearing members I9, I9, by substantially rectangular metal plates 24, 24 which include integral prongs 25 at their corners. More explicitly, each metal lplate 24 is in contiguous relation to a side surface of the member or disc I8, and all of the prongs 25 are imbedded in said member or disc |8. The margins or marginal edges of the metal plates 24, 24 desirably terminate Within the circumference of the member or disc I8, as shown in Figs. 1, V3 and 4. Each metal plate 24 includes a central angular. opening 26 which slidably but non-rotatably yreceives the angular shaft 2|, and Cotter pins 21, including a cotter pin at each side of the member or disc I8, are situated at the outer .sides of the metal plates in spaced apart openings 28, 28 through said shaft 2|. l Said Openings 28, 28 are so located in the shaft I relatively to each other that the cotter pins 21 will cause the metal plates 24, 24 to be retained in rigid, contiguous relation to the member or disc I8, and, too, said cotter pins constitute means which limit the extent of longitudinal movement of the shaft 2| in its bearings I9, I8. That is to say, there is a cotter pin 21 between each metal plate 24 and the adjacent bearingvmember. The cotter pins are spaced from each other a distance which is slightly less than the distance between the inner ends 2|), 2|)` of the bearing members I9, I9,l

respectively, and upon slight longitudinal movement of the shaft 2| in either direction a cotter pin Will engage the inner end of one or the other of `said bearing members thus to limit the extent of longitudinal movement of said shaft 2|, as well as lateral or sidewise movement of the relatively roughened member or sponge rubber disc |8. Clearly, the cotter pins 2lr can be inserted in the openings 28 while the lower member I2 and the upper member I3 of the container are disassembled. It will be evident that the memberjor disc I8 is fixed to rotate with the shaft 2 l,` when this is rotated, through the instrumentality of the metal plates 24, 24 secured, at the angular openings 26, upon said shaft to rotate therewith and the prongs 25 integral with said metalplates and imbedded in said member or disc at locations in spaced relation to the shaft 2|.

A bracket or supporting means for securing the dispensing device upon a wall or other structure may be of any suitable and convenient construction, As disclosed, the dispensing device is adapted to be supported'by an L-shape bracket including a horizontal portion 29 thereof which is rigid with the dispensing device and a vertical portion 30 thereof which is adapted to be made rigid with a Wall or other structure.

The member or disc I8 is of annular configuration, and the periphery or outer surface 3| of said member ordisc is curved in transverse directionvand has Width somewhat greater than thediameter of the dispensing outlet or openin-g |'|.,which, as shown, is. circular. Also,'the diameter of the member or disc 8 is considerably greater. than the diameter of said outlet or opening l1. The surface 3| is of generally spherical coni'lguration,`.as is also the internal surface of the lcontainer II at. location adjacent t0 and aboutthedispensing outlet or openingil'l and Ithe construction and arrangement aresuch that the'periphery or outer generallysperical surface 3| ofthe member or disc I8 is .adapted to cause the dispensing outlet or opening Il. to vbe completelyfcover'ed, about'as disclosed in Figs. 1 and 3, so that when saidmember or disc isstationary said outlet openingvis sealedclosed against the possibility of thepassageof material y:from the chamber l'of the device, `That is to s ay,'the member or disc I3 bears relation to the dispensing outlet oropening such that the periphery or outer surfaceof said member lor;disc is in complete covering relation to said dispensing outlet or opening much, or about, the same as a,

valve when it is closed has relation to a Valve seat. Actually, the outlet'or Opening can be considered as an Aoutlet passageway surrounded .by a `valve seat and the `member or disc ,I8 can be czonsideredy asavalve-like controlling deviceI or entity uponusaid valve seat in ,covering rela-V tion to said outlet vor kopening or outlet passage- Way. The lconstruction `and arrangement` are v also vsuch that when the member Qndisc 8 ls caused to be rotated the perimeter orouter s urface 3| thereof-,will cause materialprogressively to be fed from the chamber Illto the dispensing outlet or openingV IIwhenceuthe material will,` lnaturally, be removed,4 or-fall, Iby gravity ,from the-device. f

the chamber I0, as well as relatively tothe dispensing outlet yor opening l|1,Awill cause particles or pieces of the' material tov be conveyed tolthe location'of "said dispensing'outlet or opening, and said particlesor pieces will, obviously, thence be `removed from the dispensing device by gravity.y

In some instances particles or pieces ofmaterial may be wiped vby exterior parts of the surface 3|f of the member or disc |8 to the outletl or opening and in some instances particles or pieces fof material Vmay become `positioned in concavities'l of said surface 3| and .thus befed` to said outlet or `opening |,'|.l vIn all-cases, theamount of material caused to be fed from-they chamber Il) to the dispensing outlet or opening linresponse ,to rotation of the member or disc |18 will have direct relation to the extent of rotation of said member or disc I8.

there will be deposit of material from the dispensing device in substantially fixed total amount, with increase oi the eXtent of rotation the total amount of deposited material will be greater, and with decrease of the extent of rotation the total amount or deposited material will be less. Feed of material from the dispensing device'will oontinue progressively and regularly as long as the member or disc I8 is kept in rotation, and feed from said device will terminate the instant said member or disc is permitted or causedto be stationary.

It has been found that a sponge rubber disc is entirely satisfactory to the performance of the services or functions for which the present dispensing device was devised. However, the relatively roughened member or disc I8 may in some instances be composed of substance other than sponge rubber.

What is claimed is:

A dispensing device comprising a container providing a chamber for receiving material, said container including a hollow, generally dome shape lower member and there being an outlet passageway leading from said chamber at a lower portion of said lower member, a valve seat upon That is, with rotation of the member or disc i8 through any given arc said lower. member in surrounding relation to said outlet passageway at the inner side thereof, bearing members supported by said lower mem-` ber including innerends of said bearing members disposed in spaced apart relation, a resilient member between and in adjacent relation to the inner ends of said bearing members and including an annular roughenedouter surface of the resilient member of generally spherical configuration engaged against the whole of the periphery of said valve seat at the inner side thereof in covering relation to said outlet passage` way, metal plates situated against the opposite side surfaces of said resilient member and rigid therewith, said metal plates being disposed 'between the resilient member and the bearing members, respectively, and there being an axial angular opening through said resilient member alined with angular openings through said metal plates, a shaft rotatably mounted in said bearing members and snugly received in the angular openings through the resilient member and the metal plates, means engaged with said shaft retaining each of said metal plates in contiguous relation with said resilient member and the resilient member rlXed against sliding movement along said shaft, and a crank integral with said shaft at the outer side of said container.

ANNAR FRIDTJ OV SYVERUD. 

